The Drop: New PlayStation Games for 1/17/2017

It’s time to take gravity for a spin. The colorful, dizzying, and pulse-pounding world of Kat comes spiraling back into the spotlight next week with Gravity Rush 2, out January 20 on PS4.

Continuing her search for answers, our high-flying hero Kat faces new enemies in the soaring open world of Gravity Rush 2. With Raven by her side, Kat must master three unique styles of gravity-bending combat in order to unravel the riddles of her origin and save the very universe itself from a terrible fate.

For a full list of new games coming to PlayStation next week, read on. And enjoy the Drop!

Neo-San Francisco, 2064 AD. Your life as a struggling journalist is interrupted by the world’s first sapient machine, a ROM (Relationship and Organizational Manager) named Turing. Together, you and the quirky robot will encounter a colorful cast of locals and overcome challenges as you uncover the city’s secrets behind the overlapping futures of technology and humanity. Can you survive in Neo-SF? Or will the mystery go unsolved?

Atelier Shallie has returned with additional features on PS Vita! Experience the world of Atelier through the expanded stories of the two Shallies as they meet characters from previous Dusk entries and use alchemy to fulfil their goals in this conclusion to the enchanting Dusk trilogy.

Experience lightning-fast battlefield action across an epic story! In the digital realm of SE.RA.PH, the Holy Grail War is over, but the land’s new ruler faces challenges and threats from all sides. Those Servants who survived the war now find themselves drawing up tense and unlikely alliances, preparing for a conflict that may tear SE.RA.PH apart… or destroy it entirely.

The Flame in the Flood: Complete Edition is a wilderness survival game in which a girl and her dog travel on foot and by raft down a procedurally-generated river. Scrounge for resources, craft tools, remedy afflictions, evade the vicious wildlife and, most importantly, stay healthy in a dangerous wilderness.

Gravity Rush 2

PS4 — Digital, Retail (Out 1/20)

Another mind-bending adventure awaits gravity queen Kat as a new danger emerges to threaten the fabric of the universe itself. Still searching for clues behind the mystery of her origin, and with the powerful Raven at her side, Kat must master three unique gravity attack styles as she takes on enemies and massive bosses.

Somewhere along the venerable Route 7, in the middle of nowhere, you will find Joe’s Diner. As an employee working the graveyard shift for the next month, your primary task is to keep the tables clean — no tough challenge at all. Unfortunately, the old diner was built on the site of a burial ground…

Quest of Dungeons is a turn-based dungeon crawler and a roguelike, featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. An evil Dark Lord has stolen all the light, so your mission is to enter his lair and defeat him. By playing as either a Warrior, a Wizard, an Assassin, or a Shaman, you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies, and loot everything you can in order to survive.

Get ready for intense combat action as you battle Grimm across familiar locations of Remnant including new areas never before seen in the show. Play as Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang in this character-driven adventure that explores new storylines, new Grimm types, and a new villain!

Play through the Knight campaign as you battle against the tribal Lizardmen or enjoy the groundbreaking PvP combat system that will deliver fast-paced real-time strategy action or tactical turn-based gameplay. The objective of each battle is to destroy the opponent’s keep. Players can decide to either quickly attack an opponent’s base, adopt a more defensive strategy by fortifying their own headquarters, or maintain a balance of offense and defense.

Welcome to the incredible world of Supermagical, where bubble popping has never been so much fun! Supermagical is a unique puzzle adventure with a rich world to explore, an award-winning soundtrack, and tons of powers, spells, pets, and mounts to unlock.

AFI — AFI (The Blood Album)

Starset — Vessels

Nicky Jam — Fénix

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Trespass Against Us

Surf’s Up 2: Wave Mania

Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence — January 15 at 9/8c (Investigation Discovery)

It’s adorable you think the switch is going to be something 3rd parties care about. I live in the real world where games have a 3-6GB day 1 update, and I can’t imagine 32GB of the switch lasting very long, and people aren’t going to drop 50+ dollars for an SD card to update games, and so the switch will just end up collecting dust and getting pulled out for the semi-annual Nintendo game release before Nintendo decides they’re giving up on consoles and announces a true 3DS successor.

I personally don’t care if they don’t show MMPR Mega Battle because I’m actually pretty disappointed in that game. I know and I understand that there are some, if otherwise, most MMPR fans that will enjoy that game, but personally, I rather have a Power Rangers game made by Koei Tecmo and Omega Force (the same people who did the Dynasty Warriors games). If they can make a One Piece game, a Zelda game, and a Gundam game made in the style of Dynasty Warriors, I’m sure they can do the same with a Power Rangers game.

Well, on last week’s The Drop, Ryan said they’d be rolling the info from the Store Update post into The Drop, rather than having a separate post. They followed through on not making a separate post, but they also never put any extra information in The Drop.
So this will be the make or break week. Do they actually want people to buy stuff on PSN anymore, or did I just waste the last year and a half by going full digital?

The store updates are literally the only reason I usually come here. Sale info and major DLC releases were nice to see all in one place. Major game release news is everywhere, but nowhere else consolidated everything.

A lot of people mainly come here for the Store Update to gain knowledge of releases, prices and sales. As error strewn as it was (I don’t remember a single week without at least one mistake), it was convenient and much easier than browsing the store. The Drop, on the other hand is useless: an incomplete list of new releases with a brief description of the game cut and pasted from the publisher’s PR.
Social Media Specialist(!) Ryan Clements told us that Store Update blog would be discontinued and that the info would be incorporated into the Drop. This hasn’t happened. The last 3 weeks, the Drop has remained the same, and there has been no Store Update blog. I don’t know whether that is to hide the lack of decent sales so far this year, or just laziness.
This blog is supposed to be about the community, and for the benefit of the customer. Instead, we are treated like fools, our comments are censored or ignored, and the only responses we get are inane comments like “Beyond!” Or “I’m super hyped for that game too, bro!”
I doubt this post will get a serious response, but I hope we get some sort of explanation and that if others feel the same, they too air their views.

So now i see they don’t give a heck about us customers.. Only post about playstation store update this week is a direct link to “the ps store”.
Conclusion is that there is no real sales.. on the contrary, in europe store they have tons of deals with the january sale. So tell me they are giving good public relations service atm cause i see none.

So now i see they don’t give a heck about us customers.. Only post about playstation store update this week is a direct link to “the ps store”.
Conclusion is that there is no real sales.. on the contrary, in europe store they have tons of deals with the january sale. So tell me they are giving good public relations service atm cause i see none.

As said above.. what was written on “The Drop” last week;
“Finally, you may notice a few changes with The Drop as we move into the new year. Starting this week, we’ll begin including more PlayStation Store coverage right here on The Drop in lieu of a dedicated PS Store Update post. In addition to revealing the week’s new releases, The Drop will curate a list of other content starting each Tuesday, from major add-ons and DLC to select discounts, themes, and more. Let us know what you think!”
I’m just hoping we’ll get back games sales charts.. i wouldn’t miss not seeing themes, movies and music sales though…

If they stopped for good I’d probably just stop visiting here.
I would always use it to pick out games I’d like to buy during sales too.
Seems like a bad idea to just drop it and ignoring questions about it is equally as bad for them.

Hopefully for the upcoming week somebody will do a store update. This week the sales were SO BAD that maybe they were embarrassed.

I’m so glad that Gravity Rush 2 had a demo. I never played the original, but I really didn’t like the movement and awkward camera. It seems like the kind of thing that might get easier with practice. It just turned me off completely. Definitely NO to Gravity Rush 2. Not saying it’s a bad game. Not for me because of the controls and camera.

I advise anyone who hasn’t played the original to try the demo before buying Gravity Rush 2. You really need to experience the demo to see if the movement and camera is for you.

Man, I had such a different reaction; I loved the gravity rush 2 demo. Of course, I liked the first game too and am currently playing it again on my PS4. The controls are definitely not for everyone, but I feel they perfectly capture a being that has very poor control of their powers.

I completely agree, Gravity Rush has been rotting on my vita for a couple of years now, but I don’t have the heart to delete it off my games list. I keep saying I’m gonna play it and every time I do, I’m done with it in ten minutes easy. Now, I have a short attention span and a backlog of at least fifty games, tons of triple a titles etc I buy a new game every week, it’s just something I do. I should just get on with it and delete the damn thing and download it later if need be. Problem is the vita sucks and there’s not much to replace it with.

As others have said, I basically come here for the Store Updates so I can see what’s all on sale. If I can’t get that anymore there’s little reason to come back, and it will lose you potential sales too I’m sure. You think I turn on my 3DS and XBox just too see if anything is on sale or if anything I unexpected got released? I don’t think so,

There was no Store Update on the 3rd, sure. But there was a Drop post on the 6th and a Store Update occurred on the 10th, they just didn’t post any actual information about it besides the slim pickings in The Drop. That doesn’t bode well. That’s why we’re upset. First update of the year went by, and already going back on announcements. I’m hoping we don’t get a repeat this week.

Asked the developer. He said each version paid for by the predecessor. One person….he is publishing and developing…..paying out of his own pocket for the PS4 Port. If the PS4 version does well enough..chance for a Vita version.

Getting a Vita dev kit might be pain…let’s hope it does come. Would fit the device well.

PlayStation the King of PC and IPhone Ports. PlayStation may have the most exclusives but 50% are PC and iPhone Game Ports and charging for free Iphone games Lmao. Anyways another week of working on the old backlog the early reviews turned me off from gravity rush 2 i’ll wait till it hits under 30 dollars.

I kindly ask someone competent here: “What’s happen with US Store”?! Update isn’t done for a month, the holidays are over, so I ask myself who works there at all? Guys who buy at Stores in Europe largerly laugh us…C’mon wake up US!!!!

The absence of communication regarding sales is rather disappointing. Due to the lackluster sales being buried in the “$ave” tab of PSN, I have yet to purchase something, this year, from this once fine digital store. Here’s to hoping that the PS blog team will bring back store updates in some form. As long as they include a weekly new releases and sales chart I will be satisfied. Despite all, happy gaming everyone :)

If anything, it looks like they kept everything they’ve had for the past 2 weeks, except this time, they took out a few things. To be fair thiugh, if there were any good sales this week, it’d probably be the same games we’ve been seeing on sale for a few months now as these current gen consoles barely have any games aside from basic shooters.

I don’t normally post, but please add my voice to those who aren’t thrilled with the new set-up. I check the blog now and then for news but I use it most for information on the store updates. I like having a rundown of every new game, sale, and add-on content. While I have taught myself how to navigate the webstore and the store on the console, it is by no means well organized and the blog post is where I would go to make sure I didn’t miss any new releases. Disappointed in general by this news.

By not giving us a store update, they are effectively telling us that there are no sales to notify us about. Which is pretty much true again.
Guess we’ll see if we still get a flash sale this month or if those have gone by the wayside as well.
Discounts for ps+ members may turn out to be another perk left behind with the price increase in 2017. I could be wrong. I hope so.

I have to agree that the “new” lack of real information… re: weekly updates/ sales etc… is disappointing. I have never been a fan of “The Drop”. Too little info… never any trailer links… always left me wanting. I’ve just been checking out the blog less and less. I would think that as with any forum like this the idea would be to drum up excitement for the product we all love. AND no sales… seems to me a real reversal towards fans in general. Of course there are no comments from Sony here… so… status quo for 2017… not looking good… :(